“Sindrome de distres respiratorio primario en el adulto a consecuencia de neumonia adquirida en la comunidad”

Abstract

The present clinical case analysis was carried out in a 51-year-old female patient in October of 2013. She presented respiratory distress, cough, expectoration with fever, asthenia, arthritis, and arthritis. She went to a doctor where she was given medication specifies, without improvement, after 15 days, visits the Yerovi Mackuar Hospital for the emergency service due to the persistence of the symptoms where he receives medication, being discharged to his home at three hours, after 72 hours to a private clinic due to the intensification of symptoms where a chest x-ray is performed, the patient's clinical condition is transferred to the Yerovi Mackuar Hospital, where physical evaluation and complementary examinations are performed, diagnosing severe pneumonia, for which she is prescribed oxygen therapy, the Hospital already mentioned above does not have the proper equipment so it att transferred urgently to Ambato Teaching Hospital where he was finally attended to and diagnosed with severe community acquired pneumonia, primary respiratory distress syndrome in the adult, acute pulmonary edema, chronic anemic syndrome, pulmonary septic shock. The patient spent two months hospitalized receiving clinical treatment, to which she was referred to physiotherapy, after going a couple of sessions patient leaves the treatment for work and economic reasons. Currently the patient has respiratory distres, is under pharmacological treatment, to help a greater recovery of the patient has been proposed a physiotherapeutic treatment, based on exercises that help to gain greater lung expansion, which will improve their quality of life.